Word: quaver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heart Sings, Polly Bergen (Columbia LP). Songstress Bergen's idea of emotion is a throaty quaver and a kind of asthmatic gasp. The effect is disconcertingly in evidence on the first side of the album, but side 2 makes up the balance with a finely swinging Lucky Day, a bubbly The Lady Is a Tramp...
...voice has a pump-organ quaver and a soft adolescent fuzz on it, the phrasing is smooth, and the sentiments belting from the jukeboxes hit the pop fans right where they love to live...
...Bert Lahr, a mighty available Jones around all channels these days, blinked and "poo-poo-pa-dooed" through some excruciating jokes ("Are you Ivy?" "It's crawlin' all over me") and brayed his inimitable full-octave singing quaver. Digging into Broadway's attic of old goodies, Omnibus borrowed Lend an Ear's funny, picture-hatted Gladiola ("Skiddy, give me some hooch") Girl and a rollicking Prohibition Era chorus line to vamp the Long Island playboys...
From Peking to Berlin the rulers of the Communist world dutifully chorused delight at Khrushchev's coup. But some among them did so with an uncontrollable nervous quaver. In East Germany a spokesman for heavy-handed Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht edgily scoffed at journalistic speculation that the changes in Moscow might inspire "similar revisions" in East German leadership. In Hungary the Budapest radio feared that "certain revisionist circles" might try to take advantage of the situation and said that "necessary firmness must be displayed." Poland's Gomulka and Yugoslavia's Tito were plainly pleased: their "many roads...
...presence in it-in a very likeable show. The Judy Holliday who started her career in nightclubs shines readily in a musical. She can sing or do take-offs of singers and adorn a chorus or dance. In the role of a warmhearted answering-service operator, she can quaver like a beldam or give a rumbling impersonation of Santa Claus. But what is perhaps more important, she can look engagingly blank or beguilingly large-eyed, can be daft, sly, small-girl, strong-minded, touching. She is an adroit performer and an inimitable personality...